The Sun. — London, England, 1810-04-21 00:00:00

11l i; i~ 1 TIANSPORT OFFICE, Apt.ll7, 1810. r rHE COMMISSIONERS for Conducting His milyEsTY'S TRANSPORT S ERYICE, for taking Care of Sick and IKrunded Seamen, and fir the Care dad Custody Prisoners of IVar, hereby give Notice, that they will he teady at this OLVee, on Tuesday, the meth of May, ISso, to receive scaled Tenders, and Spear -with such Persons as may he willing to contraa jar VI CTUA L LING Briscners of Year in health, at Chatham, fcr Six Months certain from the I,ct of ilext. No Tender TOW de received after One o'Clock on the Day of Treaty, nor any noticed, unless the Party, or• an Agent for him, personally attend Each Teniet must be accompanied by a Letter from two respectable Persont, engaging to become bound with the Person tendering, in . the Sum of zoool. for the due pojormance of the Contract. • Farther Particulars" may be known by applying at Ibis Office; sr to Cap t. Hutchinson, Chatham. TRANSPORT-OFFICE, April 12, !lit°, THE COMMISSIONERS for Condueling HIS MAJESTY'S TRANSPORT SERVICE, for taking Care of Sick and Wounded Seamen, and for the Care and Custody ofi'r4onert of War, do i bere4y give Notice, that they will be ready, at 16i:4V - et, on Thursday, the loth of May, ISso, to receive sealed Tenders, and treat with such Persons as may be will ng to contract Jnr supplying the undermentioned Articles, for Twelve Montt, I certain. Coats, Waistcoats, and Trowsers, Navy Bedding, consisting of /lair Bed, flair Pillow,. Sheets and Night Caps—for Sick and Wounded Seamen. Coats, Waistcoats, and 'Frowsers, Paillasses, and Bolster Cases—for Sick Prisoners of War. Flannel Waistcoats_ and Drawers, t.inen DI - awers, Covikts, Stockings, and Curled I-Ltir—for both Services. No Teneitr will be received after Oxe o'Clock on the .Ij., !y of Treaty, nct any noticed, unless the Party, or an Agent for him, personally attend. Each I ender must be accompanied by a Letter from two respeaable Persona, engaging to become hound with the Person tend° ing, in the Sum of soot. for the due performance of the Contract. Further Particulars ntly beknAvn by applying at this Office ; and Samples neat' 6e seen at the Storekeeper-a-neral's, iriggines• Quay. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, April a, aro. THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of MIS S MA . YESTY 's ORDNANCE do hereby give Notice, that Proposals: wil be received at their Office, in Pall-Mall, on or before • Monday, the 30'h day of April inst. from quell .fersons as may be willing to undertak i e the Supply of PIG LEAD. fvr Servke of this Department, for a period of Six Months from 3d of May next. A Specimen of the Lead to be supplied may be viewed uppt application to the Comptroller of the kyal Laboratory at Mot wiP'''; and further par;icklars, together with the Terms and Conditions of the Contract, may be known at the Secretary's Office, in Pall. Mall aforesaid, any day, between the hour: of Ten and Four o'clock, where the Proposal: must 6e delivered sealed up and indorsed, " Proposals for .l'ig Lead ;" but no' Proposal can 6e admitted after the said .31b inst. al Twelve . o'clock at Noon of the same day ; neither will any Tender' be noticed, unless the Party ma4ing it, or an Agent in his behalf, shall attend. Order of t'e Board, R. 11. CREW; Sec. MAILS._ ARRIVED -1 Dublin. Du g— I GOttCllbUigh, t Lisbon, Cadiz, 2 Waterford. PRICE OF STUCKS THIS DAY AT TWRLV 'O'CLOCK• Consols - 69; 7o • E 6 U N. SOLEM QUIS DICIR . II FALSUM AUDIAT ? L 0 N D 0 IV, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1810. No news whatever has been received from the Peninsula this day, but we have made some further Extraas from the Portuguese Papers which arrived yesterday. 'lt is said that the Spaniardi have failed in an attempt to txpel. the French frcitn the town of St. Andero. . - In recurring again to the events . which; Ipppeued at the late dinner at the London Tavern, we can assure Mr. WHITBREAD that we are not adualVd by any motives of personal holtility towards 'him, although we are aware that the renewal of the sub= jet is calculated to give Elicit considerable pain. The situation in which he was phced was most mortifying: After all the caresses and blandish ments which he bestowed upon the Chairman of the Meeting, it certainly .was not to be . exre6led that, even in the moment of all his condescen sion, he should be treated with so much harsh ness. lint however painful the experiment was to Mr. WurriptgAn, it May •be useful to some of his fiieuds, who, like him, are coquetting with the BLI4DETTITES. It wilt- teach them the cliggler of their new associates, -never admit a man as a proslyte who will not subsribp to every. article of their faith, and it will open t beit7 eyes with re sped to the real °attire, if riot to the full eaten t; of these articles to which they are calle'd upon to assent. It was in vain that Mr:"WHITBREAD, when he van , tured to vindicate a small portion i .of the rights of the House of Commons, put the strong St case.of insult to them, in order to justify a commitment, that he could conceive. It was in vain that, to _ make the insult appear still more atmeions to the company, he supposed it to be offered to two such Oembers as Mr. WatifumAN and Mr. W4ant.E, t would not dq—thg inflexible Vendvt . of I..inen, and the tried Patriot, were not to be softened, even by this compliment. to themselves ; they would not allow him to capituPite—they woultl grant no terms —they required an absolute unconditional surrender. —lt may be said that it was ,iejudicbus in Mr. WHITBREAD to venture, 011 such 'an occasion, to say a word in favour of the Constitutional Privi leges of the Hoese of "Commons ; it certainly was so ; but at the same time it Must be admitted that he was in a very embarrassing situation, for:though' his new friends, the BURDETTITES„ will not allow the House of Commons any Privileges at all, his old friends, the Whigs, allowed it a great many ; nay, those great Whigs, Mr. Fox and Mr. GREY, not only maintained that the House had the privi lege of commitment for libel, but actually en forced .that privilege themselves upon unfortu nate printers who had incurred their displea sure. Mr. WHITBREAD therefore could not em brace the dortrines of the BURDETTITES, with out abandoning the principles of the Whigs; but as he had not quite lett one party, and had not actu ally joined the other, he, in the simplicity of his heart, endeavoured to please both, and thereby ex perienced that unfortunate catastrophe which, we are told by the proverb, usually occurs to persons who trust to two stools. But whatever benefit some `of Mr. WHITUREAD'S friends may derive from the scene which passed at the London Tavern on Thtirs day, we fear it occurred to late to be productive of any advantage to that Gentleman himself. He seems to have placed himself in such an unfortunate predicament, - that he can neither advance nor re treat; he is now in the situatioo of MAtrOMET'S coffin, which, we are told, is kept in a state of sus pence, because the powers of attraction of the bodies between which it is placed are equal, with this difference, that he is kept Bust ended between two parties, not because he is equally attraeled,but be-. cause he is equally repelled by both, The one party will not take him back liecatise . lie hai . gone too. far; the other will not receive him because he has not gone far enough.—The one will attack him as a deserter, the other will repel him as an enemy. The Morning Chronicle adverted again yesterday to the case of Mr..TOFFIAM, the Serjeant at Aims, in the reign of CHARLES II; as a case in stipport of the dodrine which they espouse respecting the privileges of the House of. Commons. But every man who will take the trouble to read that case, will perceive, that the Judges gave no opinion whatever against the privileges of the House of Commons ; their decision was founded not upon the privileges themselves, but upon the mode of pleading them. The - words of Sir FRANCIS PEMBERTON are—" The " question is of the manner of pleading this Order of dig Home—whether it may be pleaded to the " jurisdidion of the Court or not: And, under " favour, I have always taken it that such_ a plea " could not be pleaded to the jurisdidion of the " Court, but is a good plea by way of bar." • Yesterday. morning his MArts-ry, Princesses Au- GUSTA•and - SuPHIA, aceompanied :by Lord . CHES. TBRFLFI,,D, Generals GwYtoll3. and • FITZROY,- Col. DRSBRow, and PRICE, rode to . St. George's Chapel, and heard a sermon Preached, by the Rev. Mr. LONG, from St. John, chap. xik. verse 30::,-9 He said, it is finished, and he gave up the gitost."—The Royal Party afterwards returned to the Palace. Yesterday, being Good - Friday, the Dukes- of 'foal( and CAMBRIDGE attended -di'vitre service at the Chapel Royal, and heard a sermon preached by the Sub-Dean after which, Mr. W. KNYVETT sung as an anthem, the-appropriate sOlo to the day from the. Messiah—" He was despised and rejeated of tuen." . • Thursday being MaundayThursdajr; the Bishop of London held a confirmation - at the Chapel Royal, St. - James's 'Palace, and. confirmed .about forty Of the junior branches, of the Nobility. • Toe PrinceSS CHARLOTTE of WALES, attended by the Bishop.of Salisbury, were present to see the ceremony. , A letter from Trinidad, of the 16th of 'Yebruary,. received,in Glasgow; says, " An American frigate, of 20 g uns, .searched two ve sse l s t h e other darout,, side of the Grand Bocas. Two affidavits by- the: capiains , are in the Custom-house. The reason the American Captaln.gi.>e for his condua was,. that the American ships had as goad i s right to search as the British." . . Letters have been received -by the Packets from Buenos Ayres and Rio JaneirO-L-the fortner after a voyage of 77, and the latter of 63 days. We have no news frprn either of these settlements of much importance ; but we think we can - colle6f, by the „accounts from the Spanish Colonies, an increasing disposition in the inhabitants to.throw open th e tr a d e , in the etent of th e conquest of Spain by sIOSEPLI IitIONAPAIITE ; and we know that some cornmuni• cations have been made to the United States auxi liary to such a design. - On opening Admiral Lord COLLINGWOOD'S body, 4 large stne was found in the pa ssage to the blad der, which` it is supposed occasioned his death. , • Sorne . changes have take n place attlie East India Ilcuse, in the Freight Office. Mr. HOLLAND, the Freight Accountant, • has retird, after: . a laborious and most useful service of upwards . of 46 His retirement has produced the following arraiigx,-, ment : lie is succeeded by RAENcoca, who is now Freight . Accountant and Clerk to. the Committee of Trade ; Mr. SAituEr. Sir...- X./TOE is First Assistant to the Freight .Accountant ; Mr. S. S. coNcEiute, Second Assistant ; and Mr. JOHN LEE, : Assistant Clerk to the Committee of V! - ivate Trade, SPANISH 41113 PORTUGUESE PAPERS. CORTINNA, MARCH t9.—Nothing particular has occurred here ; .We are in daily expealation of a fri gate, which- has sailed from London with 30,000 - mtiskets, with which we will arm as many thou sands of men. Tbis part of Spain will not submit to the French, but rise in a mass to oppose their en trance. A suflicent number of cartridges, and 200 pieces of cannon, have been distributed through these provinces. Truett days ago, the frigate Cornelia arrived at Ferrol from Cadiz, with two millions of dollars. The French remain in the Asturias, and are in number about 4000, but the troops of Gen. Roti- CALEZ, and those which have entered this pro viuce, hold them between two fires. On the side of Astorga; the enemy is at Port Ordrigo and its vicinity: The fortifications of this place are repairing and enlarging. . CASTELLO RODRI6O, •MARCH 21. In the night of the 19th, the French, who were at St. Felices, advanced to Barba de Porca ; and leaving a garrison at the bridge, proceeded, to the number of about 300 men. The advanced guard of the English, de , !aching about 150 men of the regiment of Chas,. seurs, attacked them near the Spring of Barba de Porca, and obliged them to retire, leaving some killed,, many wounded, and a number of prisoners. It is certain the loss the enemy sustained must have been !great, from the quantity of blood to be seen in the road, together with scattered arms. On the part of our allies the English, a Lieute nant and two or three soldiers were killed, and four or five wounded. This anion is certainly very glo rious to the English, from the inequality of numbers. Every day affords us new proofs of the confidence we ought to have in their valour, of which they have given us so many and such repeated examples. At-NELDA, MARCH 23. A party of the enemy's troops which occupied-St. Felicea, endeavoured to surprize an English advanced guard posted at Barba de Porca : with this view ,they passed the bridge of Agueda, which leads to that village, on the Igth inst. between to and 1 1 at night, anclbegan to fireon them, but met with a vigorous resistance on the part of our allieS, in consequence of which .they retired, with the loss of two officers and_ seven 'soldiers, "besides many wounded and some prisoners.. The English had three killed, a few made prisoners, and a small num ber wounded. The force of the enemy was 600 men ; that of the British only three companies of chasseurs. The enemy have not -altered their posi tion, but occupy the same points ; but yesterday we learned that they have 'withdrawn some troops for Salamanca. THE MILITARY. GENERAL. ORDERS. Dated Horse Guards, April •rsi: The Commander in Chief baS been pleased to di . reat that it shall be expressed in General Orders that he is extremely gratified. by the appearance. of the troops which be has seen .this day, as likewise of the Royal Regiments of Life Guards, Horse Artillery, and Corps of Cavalry, which he inspected ; on the 16th inst. and he has still greater satisfaCtion'incon- Veying to them collectively and individually, his thanks for the good conduct they have uniformly , maintained in tbeir'cantonruents and quarters since their service, has been required in the metropolis.-- No .one complaint of irregularity of any kind has reached the Commander in Chief. It is a cireum stance- wbich does infinite honoor to the troops, and to their Commanders, and the Commander in Chief has derived peculiar , satisfaCtion from having it in his . power to make his report to the Xing in terms w!iich have obtained_for them his Majesty's most gracions approbation. • The military that were brought into Lorkdon, itr consequence of :The late - Akturbances, began lo be marched On their diffe ren t routes on Th urs d ay and yesterday mornings. The 3d and 4th reginmts- of Dragoon'Guards were marched -yesteiday morning. for Greenwich, &c. The squadron of the :Royal Horse Guards. (Blues) will match from the King's Mews this morning for their quarters at Windsor. Orders have been sent to Plymouth not to enlist - any more foreigners, either for 'our land or naval • service. INSPECTION.---Yesterday forenoon, the Loyal Ile . giment' of Southwark Volunteers, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel A Lcoc x, mustered at their bead-quarters, in , the BOrough, High-streer. At twelve, at noon, they were marched off. to the Montpellier Ground, at Walworth. They were formed in a regular way, and at • one o'clock, Lieut. . COI. ADDENiiIIO.OKE, the regular Inspecting Officer •of t hat distri&, came on the ground. He dismount ed, and examined minutely; the arms, accoutrements, - 'B4c. and: appeared well pleased. The usual business of a grand field-day was gone througk in great style; a royal salute concluded' the business of the day, and the corps returned to head-quarters, where 'they were discharged. Many persons at Liverpool, we are assured, who have , hitherto been distinguished for their attach ment, to opposition principles and raeasures, have been in disgusted by the conduet -of Sir.F.ttAN6ts BUUDETT, that they are loud in reprobation of ail his late proceedings. Indeed every real friend to the Constitution, whatever party he. may adopt, must look with alarmat the tendency of th e Baro net's condu6t, particularly when it is.vicwt4 cow! • ngtion with his associates. NAVAL NEVVS L - Pomotrrn, APRIL lg.—Arrived 'the Portuguese schooner Dois Conacoeno, HETII MRRRY, Mager/ . from, Lisbon, laden with flax seed, staves, turpen tine,. &c. bound to Belfast, detained by his Majes ty's ship Favourite; the Portuguese ship Flora d e Pernanbok, ETHO ONNE DEcosTo, Master, fro Pernambuco, laden with cotton and sugar, b oun d to London; the Pappenbur g h ga lli o t G e di n d J o h an na, VOLBERT COOK, Mast e r, f rom L on d on , i n b a ll a st, to load a cargo of sug ar ; t h e s hip t ransports. i lai v e, Captain N. RUTL AND , a n d N ew Dili gence, C apta in T. Scorr, both from Ri o d e J ane i ro , l a d en W ith rice and stores; and the Mariner gun-brig, Iron' ..Cork. Sailed the Matilda extra-ship for the River; and the Orestes sloop of war with a convoy for the Downs. Put back the Encounter gun-brig. - A line of battle ship is just arrived in the Bay. PORTSMOUTLI, APRIL 20.—Came in this day his Majesty's ship Elizabeth from the Brazils, with about seven sail of transports ; amongst them are the Triton, Evans, Mary, MIDDLEYtRD, and Am phitrite. Arrived his Majesty's ship Racehorse from the Downs; Friends, HICKS, from London . ;. and. the Lark, TAYLOR, from Limerick. Sailed his Majesty's ship Stalely for the Downs ; .and the Meg, CRAGS, for Sunderland. • Went out of harbour the brig Sportsman, GRAY, for Quebec. SHEERDiESS, Apart. lg.—Came down the River Thames••his Majesty's brig Pincher. Sailed the Transit, a four•masted schooner. APRIL 20.—Arrived his Majesty's brig Redpole, The Ignited Kingdom and Charlton East India men, which were captured by the French and car ried into the Isle of France, sailed from Portsmouth in company with the Windham. and two others. There is some apprehension respecting the fate Of the Windham. No less than I 5 of , he Company's ships have been lost or taken in the course of as Many months. ..'Hyde Park and Kensingtan Gardens wereyesm terday visited by all th e votar i es o f f as hi o n , wh@ have not yet repaired to their country seats, to pass the Easter holidays ; the line of carriages extended round the Park ; and the fineness of the day caused Ile - landaus, landaulets, barouches, phaetons, and curricles, to be thrown open by their fair occupants. Mr. NI A DDOX'S attempt to vindicate his friend Sir FRANCIS BURDETT from cli , ingenuousness towards the Serjeant at Arms is as unlucky as Mr. CLIP' P i 0 S to clear himself of being the prime mover of the illiberal bye-law at•Lincona's Inn. The let ter of Sir Fitat•icis is before the public, and in that letter he says he shall be happy to see the Serjeant the next morning ; the fair Implication of which language is, that he would be ready to surrender to , the warrant. Till Mr. AlAnDox. °` can rail the sear and signature from the Baronet's letter he " but of. fends his lungs," in the fruitless attempt to e xcuse the Writer. Would Mr, MADDox feel himself com fortable, and think he main:a.ncd toe character of a Gentleman, if such conduct had been imputed IQ him ? .. - ,:,(3OxivO.—The first meeting of note of this sego son, amongst the amateurs of pugilism, took place on Thurtiday afternoon on Bed Oak Common, _near Ation, to attend an exhibition between- two pro-1 fessors of the nameS of Ballard and Hall. The former has. contested many successful battles under the tuition of ,Caleb' Baldwin. Hall was a can didate- for fame from. ..Bristol. At three. o'clock in the afternoon Tom Jones and Dick Whele led in the countryman, : and Caleb Baldwin and Clark se conded Ballard. The contest was fora subscription purse of 20 guineas, withheld from Dixon and Brannaway last week, and. tlall - was the favourite at sitting to, an.cl after a tight of about half an hour, Ballard resigned. the contest. Hall will be matched immediately against Cropley or Doghetty. The black man, who was in custody on the charge of having committed a rape, the. circumstances at tending which Were of an aggravated. nature, bas, been discharged from Newgate,as the prosocutrix re fused- to attend to prefer -fa bill against him at hick's-- Hall. Mr. JAMES AMOS, a Merchant and Underwriter, fell down in Lloyd's Subscription-rborn; yesterday, about three. o'clock, in•• a fit 'of -apoplexy, and ex pired irnmediat cly. . •An inquest was held on Thursday at the Bed Lion, in Clarges-street, by A.. GELL, Esq. on the body cf lir. 13Lottz, a master b►uiider; who died on Thursday,, in a fit of laughing, in. Dover-street.-- / Verdid—Died by the Visitation of God. On Thursday night, between eleven and . twelve o'clOck,-as a young country Gentleman, of the panto of Harrison, was going along Newgate-street, he was robbed of his pocket-book, containing bills of exObange to a large amount, and 261. in bank-notes, with which the thieves made their escape. On Saturday night bit, the new Linc4n Post coach was robbed between .Peterborough and Deep ing. happening to be on the coach-box with the coachman, a man got up behind, and cut the rope by which the luggage was fastened on the top ; • when, running atter the coach to 'catch every article as it dropped, he was discovered by a passen ger hearing sonic. of the luggage fill. One trunk, containing propeity to a considerable amount, ber longing to a - passenger, was found the next morn ing,in a field by two. boys, not tar From the pot, with the bottom knocked .out, and the contents gone. , - Saturday se'nnight a pedestrian excursion toCretna Green was undertaken by Jaxies Paten and Mary Whitley, both of Carlisle, and each near 70, ‘ Sirs 9f age;